I recently went to dinner with a group of people and one of the guys that was there started telling us how one of his fraternity brothers just came out and how they want to beat him up and kick him out because of that. This struck a nerve for me, not only because I know the guy that he was referring to but I couldn't believe how ignorant he was. They obviously liked him as a person prior to this change, does him being gay really make that much of a difference? My personal belief is that anyone THAT homophobic has to be latently gay themselves but I also realized how much views like that develop from your upbringing. My parents are very liberal but on top of that I was brought up in the melting pot of Los Angeles where there is an abundance of diversity and tolerance. This guy was obviously brought up in a completely different environment by people just as ignorant and uptight to the idea of change if he felt like he had the right to say something like that out loud. I just hope that the people in this world start to evolve and accept more people and change.
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